A pipe joint lubricant must be used in the assembly of the pipe.
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This reduces the amount of toxins seeping into the atmosphere as refrigerants invariably leak through pipe joints.
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For some purposes (casing elevators, and loading pipe into and out of the derrick), the elevators also need to resist cross-axial loads of the weight of the pipe joints.
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